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Reading the Scrabble Dictionary: Week 7

2/19/2014

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PictureCangue: an ancient Chinese punishing device
(85–98) We're going to go a little shorter this week. I've got Madame Bovary and The Crying of Lot 49 to read.

👀 Observations
So much cheese and so many carriages:

Cantal (a hard cheese of France), chedar, cheese, cheshire (a hard English cheese), and chevre (a cheese made from goat's milk). Caseate: to become cheesy. Caseous: cheesy.

Cariole/carriole (a small, open carriage), caroach/caroch/caroche/carroch (a stately carriage), carriage,
carryall (a light, covered carriage), chaise (a light carriage).

⚛ Units of the Week
    Candela: a unit of light intensity
    Carat: a unit of weight for gems
    Carcel: a unit of illumination
    Carolus: an old English coin
    Cattie: an Asian unit of weight
    Cavalry: a mobile army unit
    Cedi: a monetary unit of Ghana
    Cent: the 100th part of a dollar
    Cental: a unit of weight
    Centar: a measure of land area
    Centas: a monetary unit of Lithuania (genitive case, singular form of centų. 100 centų equals 1 litas, although they're expecting to switch to the euro 1 Jan 2015)
    Centavo: a coin of vaious Spanish-American nations
    Centime: the 100th part of a franc
    Centimo: any of various small coins
    Centner: a unit of weight
    Centum: one hundred
    Century: a period of 100 years
    Chaldron: a unit of dry measure
    Chao: a monetary unit of Vietnam
    Checksum: a sum derived form bits of computer data
    Chetrum: a monetary unit of Bhutan

!!! Words of the Week
    Candle, v.: to examine eggs in front of a light
    Candler: one that candles
    Canities: the turning gray of the hair
    Canoodle: to caress
    Catnaper: one that steals cats
    Cattery: an establishment for breeding cats
    Ceil: to furnish with a ceiling
    Centesis: a surgical puncture
    Cete: a group of badgers (insert Weird Al’s UHF obligatory badger quote here)
    Chalazia: tumors of the eyelid
    Charnel: a room where corpses are placed
    Chevron: a V-shaped pattern

♡ Favorite Words of the Week
    Canard: a false story
    Caninity: the state of being a dog
    Capric: pertaining to a goat
    Catspaw: a light wind
    Cepheid: a giant star
    Certes: in truth
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